Labor History in 2:00

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  • A daily, pocket-sized history of America's working people, brought to you by The Rick Smith Show team.
    Copyright 2014 . All rights reserved.
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  • January 14 - Remembering Julian Bond

    January 14 - Remembering Julian Bond
    Jan 14 2025

    Today in labor history, January 14,1940, Julian Bond was born in Nashville Tennessee. Bond was one of the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. He helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, known as “snick.”

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    2 mins
  • January 13 - The Tompkins Square Riot

    January 13 - The Tompkins Square Riot
    Jan 13 2025

    On this day in labor history, the year was 1874. What came to be known as the “Tompkin’s Square Riot,” took place in New York City. The nation was caught in the clutches of the 1873 depression. Unemployed New Yorkers called for a public works program to put people back to work.
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    2 mins
  • January 12 - Cox’s Army Marches on the Nation’s Capitol

    January 12 - Cox’s Army Marches on the Nation’s Capitol
    Jan 12 2025

    On this day in labor history, the year was 1932, a very unusual army marched on Washington, D.C. Pro-labor Catholic Priest, Father James Renshaw Cox led the march from Pennsylvania to the Nation’s Capital to demand a public work’s program to put people back to work.

    For more information on Cox's March

    http://web.stanford.edu/group/progressive/cgi-bin/?p=2153
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    2 mins

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